the negativity & worse expressed around here (yes i have been guilty of it on occasion, my bad) is i believe due to the inevitable frustration the punt can bring out in otherwise calm & level headed people & usually follows a particularly bad day on the punt or blue with the missus (what milk money?) & and an ale or 2 too many (or not enough!), still no excuse tho...

pengo, my 2 cents worth - to make a go of this laying caper whatever method you happen to use, i believe a max price ceiling must be adopted, laying over about $12-$16 is just asking for trouble imho, so confine your search for that weak link to nags at the short end of the market

if you must lay at longish odds then follow the suggestion in a recent thread by bhagwan (i think it was) of setting a max loss amount per lay